request: minimum attachment size?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Nov 2 15:55:06 GMT 2004


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Sounds like a good idea, and it's pretty simple to add. By default it 
will be switched off.

Marcin Ro¿ek wrote:

> Hello,
> during the weekend we've bombarded by many copies of broken 
> (zero-length) virus
> (probably bagle) which was blocked because of .exe or .com extension. The
> problem is that our MS delivered that mails (without attachment) to 
> recipients.
> Is it possible to add an option to MS that would prevent delivering empty
> attachments? I suggest to name that option "Minimum Attachment Size" 
> (similar to
> Maximum Attachment Size).
> Perhaps it would be good to set it to 0 or -1 by default to disable it.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marcin
>
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